[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly ("exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT"), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-24 Thread JP
I've tested the scenario where a service crosses paths with an app, i.e. both request location provider updates following different levels of location provider availability, as requested by zero and non-zero values of minTime. The mapping of location provider requests appears such that the proce

[android-developers] Re: How to prevent orientation change on keyboard flip until thread execution completes

2009-10-24 Thread Lance Nanek
There is a way to wait for another thread to finish: http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/reference/java/lang/Thread.html#join%28%29 If that thread took a while, however, the system might decide your app isn't responding. Passing the recreated activity a reference to the thread using this method

[android-developers] Re: Any word on a dev phone for motorola droid?

2009-10-24 Thread Lance Nanek
>And what about dev tools, code upgrade from gen1, etc.? It sure would be nice if we could create Android 2.0 AVDs to test against in the emulator at least. I just took a quick look at the Motorola dev site. It had some impressive options for testing on their other phones: a loaner program, a wa

[android-developers] Re: USSD

2009-10-24 Thread Nandy
Hi, Do you want to keep the screen on for the complete duration of USSD session? Or do you want the screen to be on for normal user setting timeout value, and not timeout while typing user response as is done today? Thanks, Satirtha Nandy On Oct 23, 8:53 am, neil wrote: > - Im a developer crea

[android-developers] How to prevent orientation change on keyboard flip until thread execution completes

2009-10-24 Thread loril...@gmail.com
When I flip the keyboard, the layout changes from portrait to landscape, activity is recreated but any background thread keeps running. How can I prevent orientation change/activity from being recreated until my background thread finishes. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[android-developers] Re: 1.6 vs setPictureSize

2009-10-24 Thread gjs
Hi, I have a camera app which creates large 2048x, medium 1024x and small 512x images by setting the camera parameters and it is still working OK in 1.6 on G1. My guess is that 640 is not a binary integer multiple of 2048 ???, so maybe try 1024 and then rescale to 640. Does 5mp pictures ( eg HT

[android-developers] Re: Any word on a dev phone for motorola droid?

2009-10-24 Thread Marco Nelissen
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:24 PM, sherifffruitfly wrote: > > Uh... I didn't *assume* anything. I asked. > > There's a new android phone coming out with a new android os. I > thought it therefore made sense to wonder if there was a dev version > of it to be made available, exactly as they did with

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Question

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Thomas wrote: > I compiled my apk and uploaded it to android market I think? There > was not any indication of success or failure. How can anyone check if > the app has uploaded or not? Your app should show up in the Android Market on your phone minutes after uploading. When I published an app

[android-developers] Android Market Question

2009-10-24 Thread Thomas
I compiled my apk and uploaded it to android market I think? There was not any indication of success or failure. How can anyone check if the app has uploaded or not? Searching via an Android browser is bizarre. I really want to email my users there is an app they should try. How else can an a

[android-developers] Re: help! Odd behavior with a search activity

2009-10-24 Thread Satya Komatineni
Here is some more research on this: quick summary once again: I have two activities 1. main 2. search activity Nature of search activity 1. invoke a browser 2. finish after that 3. As a result browser will be showing when this search activity is invoked When does i

[android-developers] Re: Sharing code between activities

2009-10-24 Thread James Wang
On Oct 9, 7:04 am, jotobjects wrote: > Understood - addinig android.jar would hugely increase the size of > your app (by about 3MB)! I think you can elimit jar from your apk by ant. I have done it before. > I was just suggesting that you could place android.jar in your > classpath for building

[android-developers] Re: Any word on a dev phone for motorola droid?

2009-10-24 Thread sherifffruitfly
Uh... I didn't *assume* anything. I asked. There's a new android phone coming out with a new android os. I thought it therefore made sense to wonder if there was a dev version of it to be made available, exactly as they did with the g1/dream. Not sure what's out of order about that wonder. (shru

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly ("exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT"), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-24 Thread Lance Nanek
>non-deterministic behavior when the different values of minTime are set as >result to (asynchronous) events The requestLocationUpdates methods use a synchronized block to avoid that potential problem: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;f=services/java/com/andro

[android-developers] Re: Any word on a dev phone for motorola droid?

2009-10-24 Thread Dianne Hackborn
What do you mean by "dev phone"? Every Android phone is a development phone -- it has all of the facilities to develop applications against it. The ADP1 is a special thing for people working on the platform, and I certainly wouldn't assume there is going to be a special product based on -any- par

[android-developers] Re: Service stops?

2009-10-24 Thread Dianne Hackborn
For that kind of thing there should be no need to use bindService at all -- just call startService() for each of the things to download, and have the service use stopSelf(id) so that it is stopped once the last one is done. And there is no reason to delay stopping the service -- starting a service

[android-developers] Re: Service stops?

2009-10-24 Thread Christine
On Oct 24, 7:52 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > From what I have heard so far, my suspicion is that whatever the original > code is, it is really not using these things correctly at all. If you mean that I shouldn't rely on side effects, you're totally right. I'm now looking for a more proper sol

[android-developers] Re: Service stops?

2009-10-24 Thread Christine
On Oct 24, 6:47 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > Why aren't you scheduling this in the Activity, and just calling to the > Service when the time has elapsed? If the answer is "I want it to fire > even if the Activity is gone", AlarmManager may be a better choice. Actually, the activity hands some data

[android-developers] synchronized SurfaceHolder hanging on my market app

2009-10-24 Thread LouisB
Would appreciate some help here, my app (Apple2 Emulator) runs great on the emulator, but when I put it up on my G1 it becomes extremely flakey. Force quit / hang like crazy. I uploaded to the market and everyone is force quitting the app. Not good! The code is based on the old lunar lander ex

[android-developers] Re: phone reboot breaks app

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Greg Donald wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: >>> The button that uses the go.xml no longer works either. >> When you say "no longer works", what do you mean? > > None of the code in the button's onclick handler runs. The button > clicks and nothing happens. Now that

[android-developers] Any word on a dev phone for motorola droid?

2009-10-24 Thread sherifffruitfly
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[android-developers] Re: phone reboot breaks app

2009-10-24 Thread Greg Donald
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: >> The button that uses the go.xml no longer works either. > > When you say "no longer works", what do you mean? None of the code in the button's onclick handler runs. The button clicks and nothing happens. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.co

[android-developers] Re: Can i specially forbids switching orientation when rotating phone on my app?

2009-10-24 Thread Wayne Wenthin
You might want to do this during onCreate setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT); or landscape whichever it is that you want On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Philip wrote: > > When i chick a button on my app , the method below will be happened. > ***

[android-developers] Re: phone reboot breaks app

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Greg Donald wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: >> Try doing Project > Clean or otherwise nuke your bin/ and gen/ >> directories. Then, fully uninstall the app off the Hero (e.g., use >> Manage Applications). Then, try installing it again and see if the >> problem recurs

[android-developers] Re: updatePeriodMillis not working for widget on 1.6

2009-10-24 Thread String
On Oct 24, 12:58 am, Mark Murphy wrote: > Disretrospect wrote: > > Mark Murphy wrote: > >> You cannot get TIME_TICK via a manifest-registered receiver. It has to > >> be a receiver registered via Java code. > > > Still possible though, register your receiver from your config > > activity or thro

[android-developers] Re: Service stops?

2009-10-24 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: > > new Handler().postDelayed(someTask, someTime); > I have not used Handler inside a Service, and so I have no idea whether > or not that's a good idea. > Handler and the related message loop APIs are much much lower-level than Service, Activit

[android-developers] Re: phone reboot breaks app

2009-10-24 Thread Greg Donald
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: > Try doing Project > Clean or otherwise nuke your bin/ and gen/ > directories. Then, fully uninstall the app off the Hero (e.g., use > Manage Applications). Then, try installing it again and see if the > problem recurs. Same problem. Cleanin

[android-developers] Overlay vs ItemizedOverlay, your thoughts?

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Wyszomierski
Hi, I want to draw 20 pins on a MapActivity. Each pin has a small pin image, but I have to dynamically overlay a small bit of text over each pin at runtime. Looks like I have two options: #1) Itemized Overlay This is the suggested method. I put all my pins in one ItemizedOverlay object, and that

[android-developers] Video recording results in corrupted files

2009-10-24 Thread bestpriv...@googlemail.com
I finally got it to record videos. The preview surfcae works fine and the audio stream of the audio resulting file is also okay. But the video stream is a complete messup because you cannot figure out what it is. The main part of the screen is filled with green colours. Any idea what could be the

[android-developers] Re: Out of surface memory in WVGA

2009-10-24 Thread a1
> 10-24 12:42:49.860: DEBUG/Blockx.GameController(900): Surface created > 10-24 12:42:49.890: ERROR/SurfaceFlinger(577): not enough memory for > layer bitmap size=1642496 (w=480, h=854, stride=480, format=1) > 10-24 12:42:49.890: DEBUG/MemoryDealer(577):   LayerBitmap (0x2e9350, > size=8388608) >

[android-developers] Re: phone reboot breaks app

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Greg Donald wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Greg Donald wrote: >> In my project, in the res/drawable directory I have: >> >> icon.png >> go_bg.png >> go_bg2.png >> go.xml >> >> The contents of the go.xml: >> >> >> http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android";> >> >> >> >> >> When

[android-developers] Re: phone reboot breaks app

2009-10-24 Thread Greg Donald
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Greg Donald wrote: > In my project, in the res/drawable directory I have: > > icon.png > go_bg.png > go_bg2.png > go.xml > > The contents of the go.xml: > > > http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android";> >   >   > > > When I put the app on my HTC Hero, it work

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly ("exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT"), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-24 Thread JP
Intentionally, sure. But this is a *side effect*. On Oct 24, 9:41 am, Christine wrote: > You can choke the foreground app anyway, if you want to. But you don't > - I guess. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[android-developers] Re: Can Android boot into a single application on boot?

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
TwoMinuteHate wrote: > How easy is it to make an application that's just a wrapper around the > browser? That depends on what you want to do. Embedding a WebView widget in an application is very simple, but forms, navigation, and such make things much more complicated. > Can the Android OS boot

[android-developers] Can Android boot into a single application on boot?

2009-10-24 Thread TwoMinuteHate
How easy is it to make an application that's just a wrapper around the browser? Can the Android OS boot directly into that application so that only a certain application launches after boot. I'm building a client some custom software and I'd prefer to use one of those Archos 5 MIDs than a Linux

[android-developers] Can not access to developer.android.com

2009-10-24 Thread Shone
Hello All, I know this is not the right place to ask this question, but I don't know where to go neither. The site developer.android.com could not be accessed inside main land China. No doubt it's blocked by the great fire wall, but I can not figure out why they(The Chinese gov) did this. Isn't

[android-developers] UNCOMPRESS_DATA_MAX problem

2009-10-24 Thread Sunil Mishra
Hi All, I am trying to load a file using resource. my file size is more than 1mb. res/raw : contains a file named abc_fb2 . but i am getting UNCOMPRESS_DATA_MAX error in catlog. as per my google, i found that there might be asset.h file , which we need to change. with some more value like 3*102

[android-developers] Re: Missing timezone

2009-10-24 Thread Simon
Yes - very annoying! On Oct 23, 10:24 am, Lox wrote: > So no one has an indication, it is really anoying for some people in > some countries. > > On 28 sep, 19:14, Simon wrote: > > > > > I have a similar problem.  I am in Pakistan where thetimezoneis > > normally GMT + 5.  However at the moment

[android-developers] Trying to turn off candidates view in EditText with on-screen keyboard

2009-10-24 Thread Bamsen
Hi, My application uses an EditText box to input information that is not English words. When I do this i get the candidates view (which I normally love :) with suggestions for known words. I do not want to pollute my word list by saving what I typed so I want to turn off candidates view for this

[android-developers] Re: Service stops?

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Christine wrote: >> What is "a task scheduled via a handler"? > > new Handler().postDelayed(someTask, someTime); I have not used Handler inside a Service, and so I have no idea whether or not that's a good idea. Why aren't you scheduling this in the Activity, and just calling to the Service whe

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly ("exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT"), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-24 Thread Christine
On Oct 24, 6:11 pm, JP wrote: By mapping multiple objects (listeners) with > different attribute values to a single one (location provider), you > never know what you will get. The documentation says that you can't be sure what you'll get. You will probably get location updates at least as ofte

[android-developers] Re: Service stops?

2009-10-24 Thread Christine
On Oct 24, 6:13 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > What is "a task scheduled via a handler"? new Handler().postDelayed(someTask, someTime); > > > An activity binds to > > the service and makes it work, but after unbind it can't bind again. > Why unbind before the activity is going away? Well, I supp

[android-developers] Rotating in content gets clipped

2009-10-24 Thread BrianS
Hi-- I'm trying to draw some large circles on the canvas which are partly offscreen, then use animation to rotate them in be fully visible. My circles successfully rotate in, but when they come into view they're clipped at the place that was the screen edge when they were originally drawn. Is ther

[android-developers] Re: WebView + Cookie Problem

2009-10-24 Thread Randall
that's correct. The server rejects the session cookie and I have to login, but the same session cookie works fine when used with other messages to the server. The odd thing is that this doesn't happen all the time. The cookie will occassionally work in the given code snippet so I thought it mig

[android-developers] Re: Service stops?

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Christine wrote: > I have a service that is waiting for input from an Activity. I noticed > that if the service has a task scheduled via a handler, an Activity > can bind and unbind repeatedly to make the service do stuff. What is "a task scheduled via a handler"? > An activity binds to > the s

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly ("exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT"), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-24 Thread JP
Hmm, ok thanks - "which value should be used" was intended as a rhetoric question, pointing out that in it's current form, this feature is not usable. It has the potential to cause non-deterministic behavior when the different values of minTime are set as result to (asynchronous) events. By mappi

[android-developers] Service stops?

2009-10-24 Thread Christine
I have a service that is waiting for input from an Activity. I noticed that if the service has a task scheduled via a handler, an Activity can bind and unbind repeatedly to make the service do stuff. However, if the service doesn't have a task scheduled and really doesn't do anything while waiting

[android-developers] Re: Can i specially forbids switching orientation when rotating phone on my app?

2009-10-24 Thread RichardC
The element in your AndroidManifest.xml supports the android:screenOrientation property see: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html -- RichardC On Oct 24, 10:22 am, Philip wrote: > When i chick a button on my app , the method below will be happened. > *

[android-developers] Re: Slow time zone name loading

2009-10-24 Thread Wouter
Here is a new log file: 10-24 17:21:58.300: INFO/Resources(14467): Loaded time zone names for en_US in 2167ms. 10-24 17:21:58.310: INFO/System.out(14467): MNM Redactie:Een nieuwe #1 in de MNM50! RT @jaspererkens: op 1 in de MNM50! // Om preciezer te zijn: 3. Ke$ha 2. David Guetta 10-24 17:22:00.2

[android-developers] Re: Slow time zone name loading

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Wouter wrote: > I had used this first, but had this issue and I tried another API. But > with the same result. Don't you have this problem with 1.5? I have had no complaints related to this, if that's what you mean. I have run into the time zone load issue before, but if it's affecting JTwitter,

[android-developers] Re: White screen in my OpenGL application

2009-10-24 Thread Steff
I have tried to install the application on my HTC magic with "mGLSurfaceView.getHolder().setFormat(PixelFormat.RGBA_);". I works perfectly. When I comment out the line the graphics looks very strange on my HTC magic, but that is where it looks fine in the emulator. If the emulator cannot be tr

[android-developers] Re: Slow time zone name loading

2009-10-24 Thread Wouter
On Oct 24, 4:59 pm, Mark Murphy wrote: > Wouter wrote: > > What is the problem for 1.5 and why does this works for 1.6? > > See the issue I linked to in the previous message. So it is only fixed in 1.6 and users with 1.5 have to wait longer? :( > > > Are do you have another API for twitter I

[android-developers] Out of surface memory in WVGA

2009-10-24 Thread a1
I'm testing my application on WVGA854 emulator. I use two activities with GL surface one is a menu and second is game itself. While launching game in logcat there is a message about out of memory error and application is killed: 10-24 12:42:49.860: DEBUG/Blockx.GameController(900): Surface create

[android-developers] Re: Slow time zone name loading

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Wouter wrote: > What is the problem for 1.5 and why does this works for 1.6? See the issue I linked to in the previous message. > Are do you have another API for twitter I can use or some examples? I > have used your thumbnailadapter (as example for Twitter). Well, I use JTwitter in my books.

[android-developers] 1.6 vs setPictureSize

2009-10-24 Thread enervatron
Before 1.6: Camera.Parameters parameters = mCamera.getParameters(); parameters.setPictureSize(640, 480); Would deliver me a 640 by 480 image from the Camera. As of the 1.6 OS upgrade on my G1 (it doesn't matter whether the SDK is 1.5 or 1.6) is sends me 2048x1536 pixel images.

[android-developers] Re: Slow time zone name loading

2009-10-24 Thread Wouter
I am only using the twitter4j api and I never use SimpleDateFormat myself. And I have this problem also when I use another api for twitter (jtwitter). This is my code (a part of): client=new Twitter(user, password); Query query = new Query("surrogates");

[android-developers] Re: Slow time zone name loading

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Wouter wrote: > I am using the twitter4j api to get tweets but it takes to long to get > the result. > When I see at the log files i see this: > > 10-24 16:29:19.300: INFO/Resources(12924): Loaded time zone names for > en_US in 2265ms. > > And that per tweet. So it takes a long time before it lo

[android-developers] Slow time zone name loading

2009-10-24 Thread Wouter
Hey, I am using the twitter4j api to get tweets but it takes to long to get the result. When I see at the log files i see this: 10-24 16:29:19.300: INFO/Resources(12924): Loaded time zone names for en_US in 2265ms. And that per tweet. So it takes a long time before it loads this. I have tested

[android-developers] Re: The file extension and read permission issue

2009-10-24 Thread 100town
Sorry everybody. It turn out the file I push into sdcard is an empty file. I don't know why. But I use another lrc file so it is allright now. So administrator please remove this topic to save other people's time if possible. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received thi

[android-developers] help! Odd behavior with a search activity

2009-10-24 Thread Satya Komatineni
I have a package with two activities 1. A main activity 2. A search activity The search activity is invoked by a search suggestion provider in two possible ways 1. By clicking directly on a suggestion invoking the search activity through a VIEW action 2. By clicking on the explicit search icon

[android-developers] Re: The file extension and read permission issue

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
100town wrote: > I did it. The same problem. I just tried modifying one of my book samples to read and write .lrc files, and I ran into no trouble, using the same algorithm that I linked to in my previous reply. I tested this on an Android 1.6 emulator and a T-Mobile G1 running Android 1.6. The

[android-developers] how to get the postal addressed in Contacts

2009-10-24 Thread sam
Hi guys, Does anybody have any sample code to access/get the postal addressed of a contact using Contact API? I searched the sdk doc but did not find enough info to do this. Thanks for any help you can provide. Sam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[android-developers] Re: The file extension and read permission issue

2009-10-24 Thread 100town
I did it. The same problem. > The lrc->txt file extension change makes no sense to me. > > That being said, try a better file-reading algorithm and see if it helps: > > http://exampledepot.com/egs/java.io/ReadLinesFromFile.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received t

[android-developers] Re: The file extension and read permission issue Hi, I am in the problem about reading dat a from some new file extensions, the problem is fis.read() g ets -1 from the first run

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Murphy
100town wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the problem about reading data from some new file extensions, > the problem is fis.read() gets -1 from the first run without and > exceptions being thrown. Check the code below: > String path = “/sdcard/wanshuiqianshan.lrc”; > java.io.FileInputStream fis = null; >

[android-developers] The file extension and read per mission issue Hi, I am in the problem about reading data fr om some new file extensions, the problem is fis.read() gets -1 from the first run wit

2009-10-24 Thread 100town
Hi, I am in the problem about reading data from some new file extensions, the problem is fis.read() gets -1 from the first run without and exceptions being thrown. Check the code below: String path = “/sdcard/wanshuiqianshan.lrc”; java.io.FileInputStream fis = null; try{

[android-developers] Can i specially forbids switching orientation when rotating phone on my app?

2009-10-24 Thread Philip
When i chick a button on my app , the method below will be happened. if(android.provider.Settings.System.getInt(getContentResolver (),Settings.System.ACCELEROMETER_ROTATION, 0) == 1) { android.provider.Settings.System.putInt(getContentResolver (

[android-developers] Re: Gracefully destroying Dialog box

2009-10-24 Thread Lance Nanek
You can close a dialog using its dismiss() method : http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/reference/android/app/Dialog.html#dismiss%28%29 You might want to consider having the activity manage restoring your dialog for you as well: http://developer.android.com/intl/fr/reference/android/app/Activity

[android-developers] Re: 1.6: GPS location provider stop unexpectedly ("exceeded MIN_FIX_COUNT"), bouncing back and forth

2009-10-24 Thread Lance Nanek
>multiple listeners for a location provider with different minTime intervals - >which value should be used Looks like the current implementation uses the shortest value for that situation: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;f=services/java/com/android/server/Loc

[android-developers] Re: Gracefully destroying Dialog box

2009-10-24 Thread Neilz
Oh well. Maybe I should raise it as a bug, as this is a problem to me, and it seems there should be a standard method to the effect of alert.close(); On Oct 23, 1:02 pm, Neilz wrote: > Hi. I have an activity which pops up a Dialog box, to get some text > input from the user. The problem arises w

[android-developers] Re: Possible to calculate yaw,pitch,roll from x,y,z magnetic field values alone?

2009-10-24 Thread DD
Thanks Scott. Yes, you are right. the Android API is calculating the orientation by using the mag and gravity(acceleration), and this is why the orientation is affected (strongly affected) by the acceleration. So just wondering if you have any idea to get the pure acceleration data without gravity

[android-developers] Re: Context Menu

2009-10-24 Thread Neilz
> if you want your context menu to popup on single item selection then how would you scroll very long list? Having thought about it, I Don't agree with this... It's perfectly usual for android to behave in this way. Think about when you are scrolling through the apps how easy it is to open one o

[android-developers] Re: White screen in my OpenGL application

2009-10-24 Thread Steff
Hi Well I use my own GLSurfaceView: public class GLSurfaceView extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback I did not know that a GLSurfaceView was added to the SDK. I will consider starting to use that, but I am pretty sure that it is not the problem right now. Or do you think it is? R